With the expanding array of brain imaging methods and analysis procedures, there is a growing need for tools to process and link neuroimaging data with clinical, behavioral, and genetic information. The Neuroinformatics Research Group (NRG) at Harvard builds tools to facilitate the integration, mining, and sharing of neuroimaging and associated data.
Along with our collaborators at the NRG at Washington University in St. Louis, we have developed and support a number of open-source projects along these lines, including the Extensible Neuroimaging Archive Toolkit (XNAT) as well as the Open Access Structural Imaging Series (OASIS) public data sets.
The NRG at Harvard is a collaborative effort between the Center for Brain Science and the Initiative for Innovative Computing at Harvard, and the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at the Massachusetts General Hospital. We are also members of the Bioinformatics Research Network (BIRN) and receive additional support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
- OASIS - The Open Access Structural Imaging Series (OASIS) is a series of publicly available data sets consisting of high interest brain images and associated measures. The first set in the series includes 400 images obtained from healthy and clinical populations across the lifespan. Read more...
- XNAT- Primarily developed out of the NRG at Washington University in St. Louis, the Extensible Neuroimaging Archive Toolkit (XNAT) layers neuroimaging customizations on top of the Extensible Data Archiving Toolkit (XDAT). XNAT provides an online neuroimage repository with customizable web pages, online image viewing, scan validation, and workflow capabilities. Read More...
- FIV - The Functional Image Viewer (FIV) is a cross-platform tool for visualizing functional and structural neuroimaging data. FIV is based on the popular ImageJ image processing software.. Read more...
- BFW - Bash Framework is an open source framework and library for developing robust shell scripts. Bash Framework aims to increase productivity by providing components containing commonly used functionality e.g., automatic parameter parsing, logging, database and web-server administration and filesystem management. Please visit the Bash Framework page for more details.
- iCog - iCognition is an Open Source software package that enables research labs to create and administer batteries of standardized behavioral tests, as well as retrieve and analyze the data collected from those subjects. Unlike the tests from other software solutions, which are machine-dependent, the tests developed with iCognition can be completed online using a modern browser, either in a lab facility or at home, thus increasing the overall number of data sets collected by the lab.
- OpenBT - OpenBT is a toolkit for exposing (UNIX) command-line utilities to the web where they may be accessed through basic REST transactions (e.g. GET, POST). OpenBT is fast, secure, scalable and operates entirely over HTTP.